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water again in Texas? Yeah? Yeah, gosh, golly, goddamn. At least it was here. We are again competency, negligence and not uh like the weather. I mean that it was also due to the weather, I think, so, Yeah, it seems a little bit like human human error or the weather. They say, they say it's unrelated. City officials in Austin have been very careful to say, like, this has nothing to do, this is not another grid problem, this is just incompetent. So that's yeah, that's it's like a new

nothing to see here. Folks were just unqualified. I would talk shit about them, but it came out and no one really cared. But it came out like a month ago that the same person who blew the whistle on the water in Flint, Michigan having highlight levels is like Portland, Oregon is much worse. There's so much it's it's a real huge problem. And everyone was like, that's cool. Let's

let's fund kicking houseless people out of encampments instead. You, Yeah, we can afford our brit of filter systems or whatever, And I don't think most people have. Portland was kind of famous for having really good public tap water. Apparently this has been a problem forever. But people were like, but the water is so clean, it comes how the river were great? Why is it famous for clean water if it's been a problem for the water that's flowing into pipes is great. But the pipes are like copper

with lead solder and do a variety of facts. The lead is wearing away into the water. Like, it's not we shouldn't have a lead problem here, but because of things that were done in the construction of the water system in the city, there's a lead problem. Put that goo in the pipes and then expand the google you've got to get to do in there. Yeah, the coup of the gators into what there's like a there's like goo tubes you put in the pipes and then you

expand them and then it makes the pipes usable and not. Okay, and so what like what kind of chemicals are in the back and floam? Probably right, yeah, probably most your standard contaminants. Yeah, but like that's like we can like we can hand mean get their daily minimum dose of flow. Yeah, you need to get your flow, and no better way than to go up your pipes. Right. Oh boy, that's correct. I just got a UM text message that says tall

evil booms show. Okay, click that talking about check that out flowing up your Wait what does the text say? It says it's like it's some from a random number. Nope, t a L dot dot dot Eva eva boobs show. Oh are you going to click on it? It's a link. Yeah, you should click on that. You should click on the link. I don't. I don't think I will click on the link. I think it was I think that they're looking for someone else that's not going to steal your bit coin

wall at Katie. That's what I'll tell you about that. Like is are are you are you referencing what happened there? Is that couple. I have not read the story. So there's this lady and her boyfriend. And her boyfriend we don't know if he's the hat. Basically, like back in one of the crypto banks, you know how there's banks for cryptocurrency, like like exchanges. I think they call them their banks essentially, except that they're unregulated and have no

security a lot of the time. So basically all of them at some point get get robbed for absurd amounts of money. Back in this one, I think it might have been bit Finance, I forget the name. They're all indistinguishable. It got robbed for what is now four and a half billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency um. And this wound up.

We don't know if he was the one who did the hack or if he just got passed the money to launder it, but it wound up in this guy, Eliah Lichtenstein, wound up being the dude who was like laundering it along with his now wife. Her first name is Heather. She's goes by the name of razzle khn and his easily the worst rap artist I've ever heard. She's like, she's also like a writer, you know what, you know what? She is. We'll talk about that in a second, but first Dane'll give us thirty seconds of

the razzle kN music video. Yeah please, has Russell knot Win, come real far, but don't know where I'm heading? Motherfucking crocodile, Wall Street, Soper on my fingers and boots on my feet. Always be a dot, not a gut damn sheet, email me, suck your message and the beet sept Oh. Yeah, so she's did you guys listen? Did you guys ever listen to Crai Shan? No, some people will, and she sounds like if Crayshawn had a fatal head injury, that's how

she would sound. Um, it's it's really like, it's fascinatingly bad. Like I've listened to like six of her music videos because the lyrics. There's one in the lyrics of one which is about like, I don't know self defense. I guess she talks about stealing from people's bitcoin wallets, which is really fun. Writes you know, yeah, she writes what she knows, so she like and it's all like filled with cultural appropriation. She's apparently claiming to be Turkish, but

her like rap presence is a versagy Bedouin. Um, it's all like really cringe, terrible, terrible shit. She also has like a TikTok where she's just like, here's what I do, my entrepreneur, Like, as an entrepreneur, here's my business. So she is a CEO of a company she started that basically does email cold calls. They will write them for your company. So if your company wants to send out a bunch of mass emails to try to convinced people to buy some stupid bullshit or watch some stupid video,

she'll write them. U there's there's been at least one person on Twitter we invented I'm sorry, we just we invented so many fucking stupid jobs. She invented this stupid job. But that's like she's not the only one that does that. We just have so many whatever. I love this. She did claim to have invented the field. And again, I'm pretty sure I was getting these emails twenty years ago when she was like nine. But but you know what,

he claims to have invented email cultivator. She's also a four A Forbes contributor, like Woad of Forbes'd like articles and I love this. She for advising burnt out execs to try rapping in order to recharge their batteries. Give it a shot. It really worked for Rastlecock. What. It's very funny. That article is really worth a read. She

is just the worst. Somebody points online who was verified so maybe they were actually telling the truth, said that they hired They realized after this broke that they had hired her a couple of years back to write like emails for their company to send out, and it was like they were terrible. Everything was misspelled. It was really clear that she was just taking their money and then outsourcing it to someone who did not write English very well. Um,

to try and make a profit. Um. So she's just a grifter who decided to become a terrible rap artist, hoping that like the winds of virality would carry her. But none of what she does is any good. Um, it's it's the worst. She's so bad. It's not it's through the world that being utterly mediocre. It's one of those blown up Yeah. I don't think she was good at grifting either. So her music was so bad, it wasn't so bad, It wasn't quite so bad. It's good.

It was too bad to be so bad. It's good, except now she's gotten arrested by the FEDS for helping to launder four and a half billion dollars and somehow that pushed it over the edge, and now it's amazing. M yeah, every everything. Yeah, there's no other reason you would enjoy watching watching that, or listening to that other than knowing everything else about her. Yeah, Daniel here put in thirty more seconds of another razzle con video. Just

pick one. It's okay. She can't sue us. She's in federal CUSTODYA don't rob, don't be, don't Oh yeah, that's the best slaps slaps, as the kids say. Oh so, she and her partner are looking it up to twenty five years in prison for again trying to launder the most money anyone has ever been arrested for trying. Going to be really hard on their marriage. I think maybe it'll bring together physically. You know. Sometimes I feel like we host a radio morning show. Oh yeah, boys, I

don't know, yeah, um, I don't know. It's extremely funny to be It's funny to me because it says a lot about cryptocurrency, which, like in a normal world without this nonsense floating around someone like Razzle Khan would have you know, had her embarrassing videos at her like shitty s e O company, she would have like been kind of profited minimally from fucking up the internet just a little bit, and like that would have been kind of

the most she could hope for. Maybe she would have tried to launch like a juice type thing or like a super food blend, but it would not have taken off. She doesn't have the kind of charisma to sell that stuff, so probably would have been just kind of drifting around the edges of e commerce. But because of cryptocurrency, she was able to commit the largest financial crime that anyone has ever been a rest Have you seen this? Did you see this yesterday? I just pull it back up again.

It was on Twitter for a bit. The specific island Paradise wants you to become a crypto serious, right, yeah, welcome about there. It's turning to crypto to boost its economy or whatever. And basically, you guys, if you if you do this just for two forty eight dollars, anyone anywhere can apply for for a limited edition n F

T I D I D card. This means they can use a palen business address, apply to change their name, legally open online accounts to trade cryptocurrencies based in this little island, But you don't get to actually be a hummer. What about changing your name? Well it says you're not automatically resident. Uh yeah, but you can change your name. Um yeah. The scheme could provide prove handy for for Chinese and other investors. Use nations don't allow crypto trading,

So yeah, that's fun. Yeah, I mean, you know, I uh, if Palau can make a profit off of this before it collapses, I guess good for them, Good for them. Join. I'll be honest, if there was an easy way to spend two d f T and get legal residency in a country that right to the United States, it would just be good to have in your back pond. Maybe it's not automatically residents, but uh, you know, this is

just the highlights. There might be some some fine print that I am well, but what about my avatar, my metatar or whatever? Would they have residency? These are questions to explore. You're a little sprite, metaverse, sprite whatever my um demon is m is that how we pronounce it? Just demon? Yeah? I think Paula might extradite. So anyhoy, Yeah, so yeah it's useless. Um yeah, what do we? What

do we? Okay? So the Supreme Court five four ruling that overturned an attempt in Alabama from a lower court to force the state to redraw congressional districting maps maps. According to that lower court, quote, um, black voters have less opportunity than other Alabamas to elect candidates of their choice to Congress. Alabama appealed this decision, and the Supreme Court was like, yeah, you guys can be as racist

as you want. Um. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in an opinion joined by Samuel Alito, quote, when an election is close at hand, the rules of the road must be clear and settled. Late judicial tinkering with election laws can lead to disruption and unanticipated and unfair consequences for candidates. Political parties, and it or among others want things to be unfair, y'all, you wouldn't want things to be unfair

in a different way too close to the election. That's not really what he's saying is that, like it's so gaverny things to be unfair, we wouldn't want them to be unfair in a way different than how they're currently unfair when the elections coming up. It's incredible because it's also like to a little more from from our our buddy Kavanaugh. On top of that, state and local election officials needs substantial time to plan for elections. Running elections

statewide is extraordinarily complicated and difficult. Those elections require enormous advanced preparations by state and local officials and post significant logistical challenges. The district court's order would require heroic efforts by those state and local authorities in the next few weeks. He's just saying it's a little hard. Yeah, it's hard. It's a little it's tough, Yeah tough. It's not that

it should like it should happen, but it's tough. We got it saying this is this will be a little hard for white people, so we got to disenfranchise black people. That's wild the argument with its hat off, you know, Um yeah, I mean again, the whole redistricting thing on

the whole has gone better nationally than most of us anticipated. Um. This is a disturbing ruling both because of what it means for people in Alabama, where, um, while black folks of the state, they're only represented in uh, one of seven fourteen percent of congressional districts, which is sucked up. Um. So this is like horrible for Alabama, and it's horrible because of like it rewrites a lot of precedents, a

lot of court precedent on the Voting Rights Act. Um. And so there's a really unsettling sort of um effect this will have nationwide. Potentially, maybe we're not going to see the worst of that quite soon because most of the redistricting I think has already gone down. Um, but you know, well we'll see this is this is yet another thing that like it might not be a this year or problem, but is like it's one of those

things those seeds that get planted all over everywhere. Obviously, this is an immediate problem for for Alabama, but this is like I think, also a very long term and it's easy to lose track of. It's easy to forget about how these little pieces ultimately end up into being a big problem. And it's not a little thing either.

I don't no, no, it's not a little thing. I don't I'm not trying to minimize it saying that like the worst of this hasn't happened yet and and will it will be the worst of this will be slowly unfolding for like the rest of our natural lives, unless the Supreme Court gets yeah. Yeah, um, and I'll say that the worst of this episode is yet to come. But we should probably uh break for ads before starting the topic together. Everything, we're back. Nice. You know what

you want to talk about? Mask mandates being lifted? Oh? Yeah, well we did it. That's happening. It's happening. Yeah, California is lifting its universal mask mandate for indoor public spaces next week. Um, get it on, except not in major cities. Sacramento makeout party, I think Sacramento. It's still other places like l A County where we are have not lifted. That's I think it is. I think it is wise.

I mean, I just in the past few weeks, I've known so many people with COVID, just so many people really sick with COVID, and all of a sudden, I don't know that many people with COVID anymore. And that's reassuring, but I still know they didn't die, they survived as far as I know, and then all of a sudden they work. Yeah. Yeah, because it seems like I don't know peak over Um Spike spoke. Um, it's happening all

over the place, but not here. I don't mind it here. Uh, it's still I'm still like in that phase where it's like I don't care. I'll put it on I don't care. Uh. In California, I guess residents are fully vaccinated and two and five residents have received a booster. But that's like statewide, big state. We're in l A. It's you are fully vaccinated. To be honest, I think some people say seems low for Los Angeles. Given the amount of time I've spending juice bars in l A, it seems high. I actually

what reading that was like, that's better than I expected. Uh, surprisingly pleased with us l A. Um, you know it just just this last week I was seeing and we

all follow very different people on social media. I'm on Instagram, and I happen to see a lot of moms, you know, from my my Over my ten fifteen years of in l A. You know, people have gone in all over the world in California, and so I have a big cross section that of people that I see on there, and like so many people complaining about California mask mandates and I've just been getting into it with a series

of moms where I'm like, just chill. I think like there's there's a petition going around to like lift the mask mandates and whatever, and like I've just said, like I understand you're frustrated, but it's just a big state. It's a big spike. Hospitals are overloaded. I bet if you have a patient, I think in like a couple of weeks, it'll be different. It's the profit. If you want to be in California and not have to worry about public health rules. There's reading, baby, It's always there

for you move to Redding. They don't. They have not been. I was in reading in and let me tell you they were not wearing masks. I mean, you know, it's hard. It's easy to lose sight of like how vast I mean this country is, but this state is, and how many different geographies and demographics it's comprised of, and it is really hard to you know, tailored to different areas that are so completely different in their different um Anyway, that's something hooray everybody. We seem to be doing it

elsewhere too, across the country. Yeah, I'm I mean, it's whatever they're going to do with whatever, it'll either be fine or we'll have another horrible COVID wave again and this will just be the rest of our lives. One of those two things is going to happen. Um, and I say, let's roll them dice, baby m hm put that. Let's let's blow hot air and spit on those dice and then roll them out. Everybody go out and tongue funk a stranger right now, I really would like ms anymore.

There was no more germs. We did it, We got them. There were no germs, and then there was one germ, but then we defeated. It is pretty funny that this is like both in you know, Canada with the convoy situation, and here, um, like se of of everybody is like, yeah, I gotta get vaccinated. I'll try to wear a mask when I'm in a business like that seems reasonable, and thirty percent are like, I will murder everyone else on planet Earth. You think about another person for a second,

and it's it's pretty funny. Um, it's pretty dope that that's like a completely intractable problem. Instead of hear me out here, we just all roll on them, you know, just give him, give him a titty twister, like seventy percent of the country gives thirty percent of the country just like a big old purple nerple, you know, swirlies stick their head in the toilets like we dedicated Yeah, like far in their faith and we're done. Yeah, exactly, Like really them up a little bit. How is that's

the way the Civil war pans out? Um? Yeah, we just got a bully them. You know, that's what it's gonna take. We're all going to have to bully the third of this country that are insistent upon being ship heads about this. Yeah, I guess that's I guess that's what's got to happen. I've been like arguing with people on next door to oh, don't do that, don't go on just next door, don't go on next door, don't

talk to people on next door. Well it feels like a better place to argue with people than on Twitter. I don't know, Yes, I don't know. Are you getting making progress? I mean I get a lot of people cheering me on comments, but then like somebody, one person deleted my comments from their posts. Yeah, log back on in a few days. About power? What else should we

talk about? I want to briefly mention and talk about our former big wet boy, yeah, President Donald John President, And how do you want to talk about him in what capacity? Well, I just wanted to mention um that Trump took a bunch of records with him, a bunch of tomorrow and Nacial Archives had to go get them. And I think it's it's only funny to me, And maybe it's a big deal. I understand if you're upset

about it, um, because like he broke the law. Yeah, he broke the law, is like obviously, like his lawlessness knows no bounds. But I think it's funny because I think that he just didn't know he couldn't do that. Yeah, Like it's not like it's yeah, it's not like, oh, I'm gonna take the records that they they're not gonna archives. Like, No,

he wanted his letter from Kim Jong Oon. He wanted his Obama letter, So he put them all a box and he took he was gonna he was gonna m journal about it, you know, like his his whatever they call him books, what do they? Uh, Yeah, precious memories, a precious memories collection, A scrap book, right, a scrap book if you will, that's what he was gonna do, and maybe a vision board for his next run. I

don't know, Cody, Katie. This is a crime, right, like like like a taken these things, all the bags they were He wasn't allowed to do that. That's not that's not a that's not a thing you're supposed to be doing. So what what's the what what's going to happen? Probably nothing, Oh he's no one's ever going to mention it again. This is this is this, this moment on this podcast is the last time any he's going to run for

office again, and everybody will have forgotten everything. Yeah. We we just need to remember that crime exists for for example, influencer, hacker, rap stars who steal bitcoin. Not for the president, oh heavens no, not former presidents or current presidents. Yeah, any kind any kind of any kind of president. We're good. And now who was it that fucking was? Was Comy who was talking about how we ought to Biden ought to preemptively pardon Donald Trump? Yeah, James Comy, fucking gigantic idiot.

Just fucking stop talking, Jay, Like you've never been right about anything. You're always wrong, bad and stupid and have long been proven wrong. Away go away, are bad, bad bad m I hate him that. Yeah, it just happened. He was being interviewed by I think it's ABC. Um, I'm looking that up where it was on right now, But yeah, he was. He was like, yeah, he should consider it, you know, um for the to the country

and ship. Yeah, he was like, Trump belongs in jail, but actually doing that isn't in the best interests of the country that ship. Oh my god, yeah, you know, the best interests of the country. James, comey, um, were you making millions of dollars off a book deal for your stupid book taking pictures of dirt roads? Yeah, for your secret Twitter prick, you super tall prick. Yeah. It is better for the country that presidents are not held

accountable for the crime. Yeah, that's what everybody wants, is for elected leaders to be not accountable for the horrible things that they do. That. Speaking of that, probably good time to talk about the Republican Party. Oh, they're doing good, doing real good. They're live and kicking, making some solid choices. Let's talk about how the how January six was legitimate political discourse? Apparently apparently last week, Yeah, the National Republican

National Committee whatever. The Republican Party, uh censured Liz Cheney and Adam Kinsinger for being a part of the janiory, the Congressional January six investigation. Um, and you know the capital attack and Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the presidential election, which last week we saw lots of evidence about how he was entertaining different ideas of how to do it. Um. Any who, Uh, yeah, they they censured them and accused them of participating in a Democrat led persecution of ordinary

citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse. I'm sorry, I and realize that was legitimate political discourse. There were thousands of people stealing ship, peeing all over. I mean, look, peeing and stealing ship can be parts of legitimate political discourse. I didn't I see that. I didn't know before. Well no,

I mean I I don't disagree with that. Like, for example, if you have if your your city is occupied by a violent, unaccountable paramilitary force UM that does violence and steals from you and also gets paid your tax dollars, and you were to damage their buildings and urinate on them, I would call that an act of legitimate political discourse because you are resisting an occupying force in your community.

I would say what makes it not legitimate is when you go elsewhere, far away from where you live and attempt to through force, impose your specific will on people who live nowhere near you through violence. That I think is kind of the key separation here. I don't agree with people who are like violence and property destruction aren't legitimate political discourse. Violence and property destruction are two of

the most common successful and the blood of our nation. Yeah, it's it's what it's it is the reason for which you're doing those things. Is it in order to deal with an actual direct threat to yourself and your community, or is it an order to impose your will violently on people who live nowhere near you. One of those things is valid, would would be my my contention. But um, apparently UH used to break in and UH call for

the hanging of the vice president. Yeah, travel from miles away by thousands of dollars in weaponry and assault people who were elected by folks in other states to represent them. Um. That is. You know, it's interesting though, because a lot of uh actual you know, senators are in here trying to not all of them though, but many are trying to distance themselves from uh specifically, well, let me pull up.

I guess it is Romney, but like, yeah, Mitt Romney, and I think Lindsay Graham actually also um distance about themselves from it a bit, but you know, it's it's it's a big question about what the future of this party is continues to be. People are worried about re election, but the you know, the Republican Party is pretty firmly taking the side of Donald Trump here, and the future

is Donald Trump. There's a statement released today or yesterday, sorry, from various Republican leaders former officials condemning this statement about political discourse. So wasn't it the statement from Ronald McDaniel, Romney's niece or whatever. Oh I don't know she signed it an way, But it's just interesting because it's there's, you know, this list of names, um, and virtually every single one has the name the word former before their

position or title. It's all like, yeah, as a former congressman, a former member of CORESS, former communication director. Oh yeah, Anthony scar Mouci is involved. Um. But it's just that stark difference of like, yeah, we don't we're not part we're not in the club anymore because we don't agree with this kind of thing. So we're gonna loudly say how dare you? But like we're not, We're not involved anymore. We're we're the old We're the old folks, um the

new folks. They love trying to get Mike Pence hanged? What is there to say and do? What is there to say? And do I feel that way? On even more News we were talking about it when we're talking about Trump last week. You fucking have to, but you don't want to because it's like, what's the point is fucking guy shrug? What is it? Like? I don't know what to say, but you also have to talk about it. It's like I see this train crash happening, the wreck, but I don't I don't know how I save it

except for acknowledging that the fucking thing is happening. It's a trap, is what it is, in a in a similar way to like how the Joe Rogan discourse is a trap where getting involved, even if you're like even attacking them online, all you're doing is like helping them. That's why I'm trying as much as possible not to

at least not to mention their names. Um, I made like an oblique joke about Joe Rogan that I even kind of regret because like the going like Fux, Spotify and stuff, go go go after them, but going after them and the guys are trying to get them to drop Joe Rogan will do nothing but help them. It is impossible to do anything that help him, will only expand his reach. Like what And whenever you talk about

this stuff, people like, what should we be doing? Like don't, Like, I think that's a nonsense for sponse, Like what you should be doing is is not not aiding and abetting him by uh keeping his profile up and keeping his name in the news. Um, it's not that he's been on Twitter for the last like two weeks solid weeks

every day, not making him the big story. And you can do that by just just let it go like he is rich and powerful, Uh not, because he's not like an isn't even like an Alex Jones thing where he got artificially inflated by a bunch of algorithms. Joe Rogan has been plugging away doing his thing for as long as there have been podcasts, and he has several million million people who will follow him anywhere he goes wherever, and he's been offered that this whole other was that's nonsense.

But at the end of the day, yeah, regardless, he's got opportunities. It's not about Spotify. But yeah, don't let him be the center of the discourse. But if course there's money in that, there's money and being like the you know, the centrist and liberal and left writers writing think pieces about how bad he is and let money

and and I don't it's one of those things. I don't mean that it's bad to be pointing out like, hey, Joe Rogan says the in word an awful lot on his show um Worth pointing out worth noting, But that's not what like most of the discourse around him is. And yeah, of course started with Neil Young saying I'm gonna unless you drop him. I tweeted about this, but

I didn't tweet it, right. But I keep thinking about Neil Young just being like on his fucking expensive ass ranch in northern California, smoking a joint on a rocking chair, watching all this ship happen all around and being like, yeah, you know, but like he's fine. Neil Young doesn't matter, and he pulled his ship from Spotify to plug Amazon's music. Don't don't fall for this. Um, it's not it's not. I don't know. Yeah, it could happen here later. I'm

just very frustrated by the thing. Yeah, and how long it is? Yeah, yeah, I even Yeah, I tweeted a joker too, and I deleted them pretty quickly, like I

don't want to. I just can't participate. Yeah, sorry, just if you actually want to do things that help commit to not using his name on social media or yeah, but like worth, you know, worth pointing out that like certain things like yeah, like he says this word, him saying the black people of different brains than people like that ship, Like that's like, yeah, it's good that that clip is out there and people know that he said

that and probably still thinks it. Well, because because Joe Rogan specifically, he's kind of a cross section, right, because there are a lot of people that listen to Joe Rogan that aren't like implicitly that don't necessarily support Donald Trump, aren't necessarily Republican, doesn't support Donald's fromp right exactly. I mean, he's got a cross section of people. So there's a lot of people that are technically liberals or you know,

all thinkers, that it's dangerous. He can normalize things very easily, and it is important to call out the things that are happening and acknowledge what it is. But it's a delicate dance because we're up in an uproar and again you're giving an oxygen. You're paying attention to everything and the thing that gives it oxygen. Again, not not actual like analysis in research, but the the me too. I gotta I gotta make everyone. I gotta make it known that like I don't like Joe Rogan that I don't,

I have to chime in. I have to dunk on him too, and could amplify it. We cancel your fucking Spotify. Don't tag Joe Rogan and that ship. Don't like. Yeah, maybe it'll hurt like Spotify a little bit. But you can hurt Spotify without helping Joe Rogan. We can, we can do that. Um yeah, every time the episode description or the episode like, yeah, delete Spotify because of like how they treat the musicians, not because Neil Young has to share has to share space with Joe Rogan. Um

like that's weird. Uh. Well, we got to take another ad break. Yeah, we get to together everything. Oh boy, we are back and guys, I've been talking a lot about the news today. I just I just found something that I want you all to look at. M m hmm. Yeah,

what is this? What is this? Our little buddy Ben Shapiro launched a thing through the Daily Wire called the Third Thursday book Club, which is where you get to read once a month the Classics along with Ben Shapiro, and so they have classic books, each of which comes with abridged notes by Ben Shapiro or purportedly by Ben Shapiro, And so they're the first one has like how many pages to this fucking thing looks like it's like twenty or thirty pages of notes and study questions or you know,

it's it's tied pages of notes and study questions by Ben Shapiro summarizing four which I am fascinated to read watching you. The main theme of is the danger of totalitarianism. Oh yeah, communist anyway, this is fun? What a treat? Who gave this to you? Yeah? I just found it because I learned that he has he has a book club. He will be apparently publishing a sci fi novel later

this year, which, by god, I'm excited to get into. Um. But yeah, I learned that there's this book club that you pay for, but apparently some people have found ways to get access to the first of these for free. I don't know if you send that one out for free as a teaser. It is unclear to me at the moment, because it's just like people on his subreddit that shared the link. But yeah, there's apparently will be

one of these. I mean, after we read his nineteen four inspired short story, UM, I am going to be excited to see what he got from that, or if he just hired someone to write a bridge notes and there is Oh I love this Orwell's answer powers right and he's wrong. Awesome. I just like, because Ben, he went to Harvard Law School and like your political comment, Like, what the funk are you doing with this book club ship? Like get a fucking like English teacher, get like a

like what is this ship? Like it's someone else do book club for you? Like why are you doing this? What do you like? What is your fucking like? I probably it's just like I don't even have complete sentence about why this baffles me so much? He just wants to wear like so many different hats and it's like, Buddy, I bet someone else wrote this anyway, Yes, I agree. Here we are talking about Ben Shapiro. When we thought

we were done with Ben Shapiro and his books. I will never be done, especially not when his sucking next novel comes out. Oh boy, I can't wait, said Summer. Mm hmmma. No, no, okay, not that I'm aware of. But it's coming. It's eventually. Maybe we'll see, we'll see if it actually ends Kitty's Pilot. What else you guys want to talk about? Movies? I want to read this, but it's no time. We can't not to. Do you want to talk about a chicken? Didn't you want to? Yeah?

The chicken who got through? Uh? The chicken was caught sneaking around a security area the Pentagon and they apprehended that chicken and it is dead now or being tortured. No, it's the chicken is probably fine. Um. Yeah, this is like I don't eat and the chicken. I have nothing, like nothing to say about this. Uh, there's this story where yeah, chicken got to a security checkpoint of the Pentagon. They will not tell us where or you know how

they found it. Top secret information all the details or top secret. But um, the bird was spotted. Um, it was taken into custody, was spotted like had spots or the bird was spotted, the bird was seen. Okay, the the the the exact bird. Uh, it's a hen. It's brown feathers and a red comb. He means it's a girl, right, Uh, it's a it's a Rhode Island red not not spotted. Yeah, I think I got one or two of those. Oh good?

Um was it? Wait? Was it your hend? No? No, my chickens did in full trade the Kremlin at one point, but that was unrelated. Okay, yeah, no, that's doesn't sound like the same thing at all. Um did are they Okay? Yeah, yeah, it was a sex thing. It's fine, okay, so successful, Yeah yeah, get it chickens um uh yeah. So it's just a it's a nothing story. Um, but somebody made it a story. So now that this article about how a fucking chicken was wandering around the Pentagon and we

need news. Yeah uh. A little note from from Garrison at the Department Defense is expected to request an extra twelve billion in funding to prevent further poultry related threat to homeland security. Um yeah, I mean I think we've got to cancel a couple of bridge repairs for this one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, a few more bridges. You less wandering chickens. That's the build back. Better promise slogan rights itself better, right, boys coding you know what? Good for you, Thank you, thank

you very much. Ukraine. No, I mean, there's there's not much to say other than the Russian military build up continues. There's a lot of unsettling stuff there. Don't they have occupation forces in addition to like you know, um well, like two weeks ago they didn't all the artillery and stuff was there. But now they're about of personnel that yeah,

based on some calculation. That calculations, but they from what I understand of enough people to do a full scale invasion of what this one group of analysts think would be necessary for them to carry out a full scale attack of Ukraine. Like, I don't know, um, I I don't know that anyone again, because if this happens, if this all goes really hot, um, this will be kind of up the first example in our lives of like to broadly peer forces meeting on the battlefield in in

in this kind of way. So I don't know that anyone really has a good handle on how many troops the Russians need for an occupation or like what percentage Like well, I mean I don't, but I hear you. I mean, I'm sure they're probably they may have some intel that this is what the Russians think, you know, based on what the Russians think that they would need for that. Uh, it's it's still really unclear what's going to happen or if again, like even Putin has a

clear idea of what's going to happen. Because it's entirely possible that this is so possible. I'm kind of some brinksmanship ship. Yeah, absolutely, the end hasn't been settled. Being with Macron now heard um that there are a couple I mean I was listening to the Daily earlier, but um uh yeah, a couple of dates. Theoretically like he might wait until after the Olympics are over. Yeah, you

want to get that. You want to get that news, bump, you know, you want to get that news well and also because you know, to not like detract from China's moment or what have you, Um, this moment of having fucking in an industrial thank god. Yeah, there's some great shots. Um and again people keep well, what would you want them to do? You know, you know, bulldoze somebody's home and like, you know, destroy a pristine place. And I would want them to do is not the Olympics because

nobody should do them? Or how about this I was reading, I kind of want to since we're towards the end, I think I'll talk more about this on even more news later in the week, but just doing some reading before the idea. I mean, like for years and years and years, it's always a problem like, yes, we have to make snow in a lot of locations, but there are environmental repercussions for all of that. And then just

in general, the the effect of the Olympics. We talked about this ad nauseum six months ago when the Summer Olympics happened. But but my point here being like a different way to approach the Olympics would be to not have them like this, or it could be a series of smaller events set up. But you can have competitions, but smaller ones set up in places that already like ski resorts, are already have the infrastructure of us to host smaller amounts of guests from out of town, and

that would actually be good for there. There there's an argument to be made for that. So we're not talking about a large scale Olympic thing with a huge environmental impact. We're talking about like normal competitions anyway, Just more on that some other time Trump should have bought Greenland and then we turned that into the Olympics place. All the Olympics happen in Greenland. Speaking of a country with a kind of similar name to green Land, this is related

to Ukraine. One of the things that's very frustrating in this meeting that mcron had with Putin, mccron talked about being open to the Finland desation of Ukraine, which I don't think he consulted Ukraine on. Finlandization is a term for kind of what the Soviet Union in post World War two did to Finland. If you if you know a little bit about that history. USSR before World War two tried to take over Finland. It wasn't that didn't

go the best for them. It could have gone um and so after World War Two there's this arrangement made that's like all right, Finland, you guys, get to keep your own government and political system, but you have to do what we want or do nothing in foreign policy. Like either you don't say ship or you you stay in line with us in foreign policy, and like that's

the agreement. We won't funk with you will let you keep doing what you need to do politically, but you don't say ship um, which I don't know, like, to be honest, I think there's a decent chunk of people in Ukraine wh would probably go for something like that if that's not another devastating war. Not a great deal, but what's the alternative? It does be getting carpet bombed. Sure, they are in a terrible situation. They're surrounded by troops,

you know, like there there. I mean, yeah, politically that might be a good yeah, I mean it might be what they do, um like, but it is just like this thing that keeps happening with these discussions world leaders are having with Putin where it's like, okay, you said this thing about what's acceptable. Did you like talk to anyone in Ukraine about this or are we just having

this conversation over their heads? You know? Like I think there's a probable answer to that, which is the last thing you said, yeah, which is nobody really gives an about Ukraine, which is why all of this has been happening for again ten years, very close to ten years. Alright, So I think we did it. I think we talked about all the news that there is in the land. Yeah,

there's nothing else going on. Um, So check back in next week where we will spend three hours reading every word of been Shapiro's analysis of nineteen We'll read, Yeah, well, we'll get our our quotes ready, We'll we'll get the passages to support our answers. I'll figure out how to say totalitarianism. It does end with a bunch of with a bunch of like blank question boxes for you to

answer things. It's just like like again, like fucking like go to school, Like what like what is this fucking worksheet you're making for people to pay to learn about from Ben Shapiro? What is just read the book yourself, read the book and like look at like this so weird that he's doing this like study questions for people. We should I mean I should we should have compared this to actual study questions. Yeah, let's see if this is just the spark notes. Oh my god, what do

you fucking paying for school? Work? From Ben Shapiro, What the hell? It's extremely funny. People make decisions I'll never understand, which is why we need to live in a totalitarian state. That that stops this happening. The official line of worst Year ever, uh, eliminate the human capacity for thought. There it is, regulate double pane windows. That's right, that's that'll end star seeing? Yeah, star gazing. Sorry, live in a place where it's unclear if they can see the giant

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